Sentence examples for archaic terms from inspiring English sources

"Traffic accidents" and "traffic jams" will become archaic terms.

The ailments included nymphomania and frigidity (themselves now archaic terms) as well as depression and anxiety.

Getting rid of such archaic terms would help to tackle voter apathy, Mr Cook argued.

The words used to distinguish between dialect regions are often obscure, archaic terms which have disappeared from use.

When the historian GM Trevelyan claimed that "without natural beauty the English people will perish spiritually" he was expressing, albeit in archaic terms, what most people would recognise.

This has, naturally, been picked up by the press and featured in newspaper reports that pleasingly contain such archaic terms as pilfering (say it with me, folks: pilfering, isn't it nice?) but then again, we're threatening to prosecute people for "vagrancy" now, so why restrict our pre-industrial revolution nostalgia to language?

A "lig" is an archaic term referring to a cover that hung from the king's bed.

To some, civility may be an archaic term, but in reality it is an essential part of our social fabric.

As for whether Lee was hurt by the crude, archaic term, he conceded, "It was not a pleasant conversation for anyone".

(Characteristically, he notes, "I could have said: I write to convict mankind," but he "wanted the use of the pun": "indite" is an archaic term for "write").

The Dutch invasion of 1688 which deposed Catholic James II is referred to by the biased and archaic term, the Glorious Revolution.